Last Updated: 2022-03-06
These rankings are designed to adjust for the strong correlation between complexity and a game’s average rating on BGG. Sorting by the ‘Adjusted’ rating will help highlight games that are highly popular on BGG while also being easy to learn.
These rankings amend the existing formula for the geek rating by altering the number of baseline votes. This mitigates the tendency for the geek ratings to highlight recently released games.
The current geek rating, roughly, amounts to adding 1000 ratings of 5.5 to any game. In order for a game to improve its geek rating, it needs to accumulate ratings that are higher than 5.5.
This table displays the rankings of games if we toggle the number of baseline votes from the current setting of 1000 through 100,000.